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Offensive realism, differentiation theory, and the war in Ukraine
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Kleinschmidt J.
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2019
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Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
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Abstract
In this article, I shall demonstrate that several of the arguments made in favour of an offensive realist explanation of Russian actions in Ukraine as part of a power balancing process are inconsistent both with available empirical knowledge of the conflict in Ukraine and with the structural logic postulated by offensive realist theory itself. Rather than a conflict about power in a material sense, I will argue that the war in Ukraine is better understood as a conflict about the incompatibility of the Russian state structure to cope with the imperatives of functional differentiation as understood by theories of world society. © 2018, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., part of Springer Nature.
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Civil society , Empirical analysis , Political conflict , Political power , Political theory , War , Russian federation , Ukraine , Conflict , Differentiation theory , Offensive realism , Russia , Ukraine , World society
